Tag: stan
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Moneyball with your Life: Down and Out in Detroit and Mexico City
The pandemic started. China paid me a good salary, but I left China, since it was getting locked down. I sat in Bangkok, Thailand, watching the death toll go up, while practicing writing Stan models. I had a few hundred dollars from my stipend. I had to make a move. I flew back to Detroit.…
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Code for the Logo
Prior to starting at SAS, I was still consulting and working for Michigan. I wanted to make a logo for Likely LLC, to make it appear more credible. Models are meaningless without good advertising and visualizations, to non-statisticians. I was attempting to make an L with mathematics and machine learning/statistics. So I simulated a Paul…
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So What Actually Happened in Finland? Aalto University Internship Summer 2018, Part 1
After working in the psychiatry department at Michigan, I worked at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland next summer. There, I worked on the Stan math library implementing Gaussian process covariance functions and matrix utilities to make Gaussian process models more feasible in Stan. The ultimate goal was to implement what’s known as “the birthday problem”…
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Additive Gaussian Process Time Series Regression in Stan
I’ve copied this over from discourse.mc-stan.org, but this was my post, so I’m comfortable doing so. While working in the psychiatry department at Michigan, I played around with EEG data. Next, I became curious about how to extract out different periodic components of a time series. I ended up finding a blog post on Andrew…
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